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Battle that took place in Charleston, South Carolina
Significance - It finalized that South Carolina was part of the Confederacy
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The secretary of state recommended the idea. Then Lincoln thought it would be a good idea to prevent them from importing goods. Significance - It prevented them from importing goods, like weapons.
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The first battle of Bulll Run was in Fairfax County and Prince William County, Virginia.
Significance - It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
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was the 16th President of the United States
significance - led the US through their greatest constitutional, military, and moral crises—the American Civil War—preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, strengthening the national government and modernizing the economy
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was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies
significance - it was the first meeting in combat of ironclad warships
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a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, in southwestern Tennessee
Significance - Shiloh proved that this was not going to be a short war, and that it was going to be very bloody.
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A seires of 6 major battles over 6 days.
Significance - The battle was to rid the Richmond area of a large union force, threatening from the peninisula near the confluence of the James and York rivers.
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proved to be the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign waged between Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia
significance - it was the most decisive battle in the Northern Virginia campaign for the Confederates
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A battle part of the Maryland Campaign
Significance - It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with 22,717 dead, wounded and missing on both sides combined -
Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation
Significance - it freed all slaves in territories held by Confederates and emphasizes the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army
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President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the midst of the Civil War
Significance - it said all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
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It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point
Significance - It was a major turning point in the war. Until this battle, the South was actually winning.
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the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the Civil War
Significance - gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union
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a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
significance - it said that the Civil War was not only hard for the Union, but also a new birth of freedom that would bring equality to all of Americas' people
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major battle that was engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign, it was fought in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Significance - It was Lee's most brilliant display of his tactics, completely wrong-footing the otherwise-successful Union commander Hooker.
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Battle fought in Hamilton County and City of Chattanooga. Union victory.
Significance - Union losses are 17,000 killed, wounded and missing out of 130,000. The Confederates, 13, 000 out of 60,000.
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He was the most successful Union general
Significance - He led many people into many battles. He had won a lot of those battles. He led the Union to defeat the Confederates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House caused the Confederates to surrender.
Significance - This ended the war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House -
A battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.[
Significance - the assault on Atlanta would favor Lincoln's reelection. The city was considered the workshop and warehouse of the Confederacy -
National Union Party
Electoral vote 212
States carried 22
Popular vote 2,218,388
Significance - Abraham Lincoln helped helped abolish slavery. So when he got relalected it was a good thing.
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After destroying Atlanta's warehouses and railroad facilities, Sherman, with 62,000 men begins a March to the Sea.
Significance - President Lincoln on advice from Grant approved the idea. "I can make Georgia howl!" Sherman boasts.
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Sherman reaches Savannah in Georgia leaving behind a 300 mile long path of destruction 60 miles wide all the way from Atlanta.
Significance - Now the Union controls Gergia.
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The U.S. Congress approves the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Significance - This abolished Slavery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution -
Richmond was the Capital of the Confederates.
Significance - This would crush the Confederates and would be a key part in defeating the Union -
John Booth assainated President Lincoln.
Signficance - They didn't want black's to have the same rights as white. So they killed Lincoln.
